Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1328489876 ISBN13: 9781328489876 Release Date: March 2020 Publisher: Mariner Books Length: 368 Pages Weight: 1.30 lbs. Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.1" Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams--and fastest cars--by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately trying to save his company as the world teetered toward the brink. And Lucy Schell, the adventurous daughter of an American multi-millionaire, ye